What would really be something is if BOTH Apple and Amazon choose the DC area, especially Northern Virginia, for their new campuses! AIEEEEE.......!!
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Apple Exploring North Carolina, Northern Virginia for New Campus
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You mean NOVA. It's a **** show.
Traffic in VA 10x's better than NOVA, DC, MD, NYC, LA and any other major city. Problem is NOVA! Let's not group that area into the WHOLE of VA. Lol
Living in Pittsburgh I've been debating diving in to some real estate investments just in case.
That's not exactly new, there's been major tech campuses since at least the 40s, Bell Labs move to NJ is probably the earliest of the modernish campuses
The location details in your profile cracked me up.
And come on, it can’t be that bad? Not worse than Delaware?
The thing is, Virginia is a large state and any one part of it can be surprisingly quite dissimilar to other parts of it. The area which is immediately adjacent to Washington, DC is called "Northern Virginia," or "NOVA," and the population and way of life is distinctly different from that in the more Coastal area of Virginia (Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Portsmouth) and that in turn is quite different from the more rural areas of the state in the southernmost area...... The reality is that Northern Virginia bears more similarity to its cousin across the Potomac River, Maryland's Montgomery County, than it does to "Southside Virginia," which borders on North Carolina. Virginia also borders on Tennessee in the mountain area as well.
I mean WTF else would you begin to call a series of interconnected buildings devoted to development and research with some of the nation's smartest working in them? Not to mention that Apple is nearly a trillion dollar company. I think campus is more fitting than pretentious.
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I don't know much about Vthese two locations regulations and employment standards. How do they compare to other states? why these two places vs NY or Georgia (or so many numerous other places)
Just curious, I've got almost no opinion of the matter other than "interesting"
Just curious, I've got almost no opinion of the matter other than "interesting"
I'll bet none of those new jobs will be allocated to design the new Mac mini.
Probably a lot of service jobs. Like General Electric.
Probably a lot of service jobs. Like General Electric.
Unfortunately, Buffalo/Upstate NY's robust economy is yet again not good enough for another company like Amazon or Apple.
At least we have Tesla now...
At least we have Tesla now...
Corporate or regional headquarters unless it’s just one building in which case it’s an office. In order for something to be a campus it’s got to be multiple buildings that aren’t interconnected with lots of space and living quarters spread out around the area. That’s a campus.
For the last several months, Apple has been exploring locations for a new campus focusing on technical support, and according to new reports, sites in North Carolina and Northern Virginia are under consideration.
The Washington Post says Apple has explored opening a campus for 20,000 employees in Northern Virginia, an area Amazon is also considering for its new campus.
Image of Apple Park via drone pilot Duncan Sinfield
Apple told economic development officials in Northern Virginia that it is seeking four million square feet of space to accommodate 20,000 jobs, and officials proposed several potential sites.Separately, the Triangle Business Journal says that Apple is considering establishing its new campus in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina. Research Triangle Park, a 22 million square foot research park, has become an attractive site for tech companies and is known as North Carolina's technology hub due to its proximity to NC State, the University of North Carolina, and Duke University.
Apple CEO Tim Cook reportedly met with North Carolina governor Roy Cooper and commerce secretary Tony Copeland while Cook was in town over the weekend to give the commencement speech at Duke University.
Apple in January said that it would invest $350 billion in the U.S. economy and create 20,000 jobs over the next five years, partially through the launch of a fourth major campus. At the time, Apple said that the campus would not be built in California or Texas, which is where its current campuses are located.
The company declined to provide additional details on the campus' location, and has since been exploring its options and negotiating with various states for tax cuts and other benefits.
Apple's upcoming campus will not be like its major corporate campuses in Northern California, One Infinite Loop and Apple Park, as it is expected to be focused on housing customer service and technical support employees.
Apple CEO Tim Cook in March said that Apple is "not doing the beauty contest thing" for its new campus, taking a dig at Amazon's decision to announce 20 finalist cities as the potential locations for its own new campus. "That's not Apple," he said.
"From our point of view, we didn't want to create this contest, because I think what comes out of that is you wind up putting people through a ton of work to select one, so that is a case where you have a winner and a lot of losers. I don't like that," Cook added at the time.
Update: North Carolina news site WRAL says that its sources believe Apple is close to announcing a deal that could bring up to 10,000 new jobs to North Carolina. Many of those jobs are "high-tech research and development jobs."
Apple is said to be planning to lease office space in Cary to start with, hiring approximately 1,000 employees before building and transitioning to a 300 acre campus in the southern part of Research Triangle Park. Apple may also be planning to invest in additional infrastructure, opening another data center in the state.
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One big large donut, yes, i agree build better phones and computers, and not waste dollars on donuts.
Hostile to civil rights? Like how hostile? China hostile? Saudi Arabia hostile? Gay Rights Champion Tim has no apparent problem with civil rights, hell, human rights in those places, so I can't imagine what difficulties he'd have in NC.
There was nothing scientific about North Carolina’s bigoted laws.
"Apple's upcoming campus will not be like its major corporate campuses in Northern California, One Infinite Loop and Apple Park, as it is expected to be focused on housing customer service and technical support employees."
Surly Apple Park is big enough to stuff everyone into, no ? It would be better to "all be together" in one place. Least that way hopefully departments will more likely communicate with each other.
Surly Apple Park is big enough to stuff everyone into, no ? It would be better to "all be together" in one place. Least that way hopefully departments will more likely communicate with each other.
N.C. is not hostile to civil rights. If your referring to the transgender bathroom law to keep perverts out of the bathroom with my daughter, or son for that matter, it was reversed by our idiotic new governor.
I welcome your reply
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